Motivational Quotes

Life

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Life

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.